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vindarel on Jan 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Guix: An advanced operating system

Nice. What languages do you build environments for ? Are they ready for a typical python & JS (vuejs) project ?

rekado on Jan 15, 2019 | [–]

Python: sure. JS: ... it's complicated.

See this article for an introduction to the problems of attempting to match npm with principled package management:

https://dustycloud.org/blog/javascript-packaging-dystopia/

orangeshark on Jan 15, 2019 | [–]

I have used guix environments for python, c++, and guile projects.

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